Kria Cave (Pleistocene to of Indonesia)

Where: Irian Jaya, Indonesia (1.7° S, 132.5° E: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 132.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: cave; lithified, calcareous, carbonaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: K. P. Aplin, J. M. Pasveer, and W. E. Boles. 1999. Quaternary vertebrates from the Bird’s Head Peninsual, Irian Jaya, Indonesia, including descriptions of two previously unknown marsupial species. In A. Baynes and J. A. Long (eds.), Papers in Vertebrate Paleontology, Records of the Western Australian Museum 57:351-387 [M. Ross/L. Spahr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 191888: authorized by Marcus Ross, entered by Lauren Spahr on 19.02.2018

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Taxonomic list

Aves
 Galliformes - Megapodiidae
Aepypodius arfakiensis Brush-turkeys
Salvadori, 1877